Re:What to Expect from Marzipan
by dangus on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:29PM
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It was definitely ahead of its time, because people forget about what makes Spotify/Apple Music/Google Play so much better than purchased music: Persistent Internet Connection.
The iPod, Zune, and Creative Nomad existed for something like 7 or more years before smartphones came around.
It's great that you could subscribe to a music service and sync with whatever songs you wanted, but that doesn't seem terribly useful compared to purchasing albums if you have no ability to queue up any song on demand.
Spotify feels more like unlimited access than those subscription services ever did.
As for Jobs' opinion, I think he mostly just held very personal feelings toward albums as a dude who grew up in the classic rock era. Plus, at the time, subscription services existed and just weren't very popular (see above).
The iPod, Zune, and Creative Nomad existed for something like 7 or more years before smartphones came around.
It's great that you could subscribe to a music service and sync with whatever songs you wanted, but that doesn't seem terribly useful compared to purchasing albums if you have no ability to queue up any song on demand.
Spotify feels more like unlimited access than those subscription services ever did.
As for Jobs' opinion, I think he mostly just held very personal feelings toward albums as a dude who grew up in the classic rock era. Plus, at the time, subscription services existed and just weren't very popular (see above).